Sarah Schindler’s “Architectural Exclusion: Discrimination and Segregation Through Physical Design of the Built Environment” Part 1 B “Architecture as Architecture in Legal Scholarship: Racialized Space and Place”, briefly focuses on two main topic: law makers ignorance to architectural exclusions, and the exclusionary amenities that appeal to certain demographics, as stated by Strahilevitz. He further states that these amenities are often incentives that appeal to a certain demographic, while raising the property prices to dissuade groups of low income (Exclusionary Amenities in Residential Communities). Later Schindler discusses the inability of lawmakers to include features of the built environment in their interpretations of discrimination. Here she uses Robert C Ellickson’s Land Use Controls, a book on land use and discrimination, to demonstrate her point; “And while it addresses tools of exclusion such as racially restrictive covenants and exclusionary zoning, never does it mention exclusion based on features of the built environment”(Part 1 b).
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